 | The sheltering desert by Henno Martin
A mesmerising, glittering tale of endurance and survival in the Namib desert, with some intriguing philosophical observations upon evolution and the human condition.
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 | Watchmen by Alan Moore
Buy new: £8.57 / Used from: £6.50 Simply the best 'graphic novel'. Ever. Check out Alan Moore's current comic: 'Top Ten' - he's still got it!
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 | On the Origin of Objects (Bradford Book) by B C Smith
Buy new: £25.60 / Used from: £18.16 Brave, playful and inspiring. Smith's 'Metaphysics of Presence' is a ray of hope for all who have hit the ontological wall. Not so much exploration as terra-forming - makes the landscape habitable.
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 | Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (20th anniversary edition with a new preface by the author) by Douglas R Hofstadter
Buy new: £13.26 / Used from: £11.33 Colourful, scintillating, breathtaking, beautiful. Strange loops in music, maths, art and life. What? Oh, it's 'about' artificial intelligence... but like the world-wide-web is 'about' html.
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 | The Forever War (S.F. Masterworks) by Joe Haldeman
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.90 The best movie never made. <Update (2009): Ridley Scott is going to make it!!!>
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 | One-dog Man by Ahmad Kamal
Buy new: £12.99 / Used from: £10.84 The greatest story of childhood's adventures that I have ever read. Moving, powerful, exruciatingly funny. It's all here; and hey - what a great customer review!
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 | Wholeness and the Implicate Order (Routledge Classics) by David Bohm
Buy new: £8.21 / Used from: £6.57 Difficult but warm and insightful study of reality, from Physics to Metaphysics via Language.
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 | The Road Less Travelled (Arrow New-Age) by M.Scott Peck
Buy new: £4.69 / Used from: £0.01 The truest opening line. Sympathetic and sensitive exposition from the front-line of the eternal battle.
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 | Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: 25th Anniversary Edition: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M. Pirsig
Buy new: £6.49 / Used from: £2.43 A meandering motorcycle journey thru a directionless country. A bumpy pillion-ride with a painful father/son relationship. The philosophical quest of a decaying mind for a 'Metaphysics of Quality'.
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 | Anvil of the Heart by Bruce T. Holmes
Buy used from: £0.01 Inspirational tale of an unlikely hero, who refuses to yield to tyranny. His even more unlikely successor learns in his travails the meaning of the title.
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 | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Popular Classics) by Mark Twain
Buy new: £2.16 / Used from: £0.01 A classic. Twain's satire isn't biting, it's eviscerating.
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 | Excession by Iain M. Banks
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 My favourite Culture novel. Not only could I not put it down, I never wanted it to end.
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 | The Adversary (The Saga of the Exiles) by Julian May
Buy used from: £0.01 The pivotal and best book in the Saga of the Exiles.
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 | A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram
Buy new: £23.12 / Used from: £18.88 Sheer bloody-minded attention to detail. Insufferable vanity. Mind-numbing repetition. Unavoidable.
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 | Sense and Sensibility (Penguin Popular Classics) by Jane Austen
Buy new: £2.16 / Used from: £0.01 They're all fun, but this one is my favourite. The film is magnificent.
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 | To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee
Buy used from: £4.66 A cross between Steinbeck and Twain. A wonderful story with brilliant characterisation, and such names! Anyone who loves the band 'The Boo Radleys' must read.
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 | Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Buy used from: £2.85 Wildly imaginative, yet much more accurate 'prediction' of the future than 1984, because of his masterful understanding of human nature. Relentlessly readable.
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 | The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare in Production) by William Shakespeare
Buy new: £39.95 / Used from: £12.58 I clearly relish cynicism, hypocrisy and satire! This play is the source of Bill's best speech: 'The quality of mercy is not strained...' Genius.
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 | Fuzzy Thinking: The New Science of Fuzzy Logic by Bart Kosko
Buy used from: £0.01 A funny, exciting description of Fuzzy Logic by the man who helped developed it into a practical science.
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 | Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension by Michio Kaku
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £2.50 The book that got me into string theory and higher dimensions.
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 | The Cosmic Blueprint: New Discoveries in Nature's Creative Ability to Order the Universe by P.C.W. Davies
Buy new: £11.99 / Used from: £4.00 The book that got me into cosmology. And fractals. And ...
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